It’s Oscars time, and it’s that time of year when people find the need to care about movies for a day, just like the Superbowl, Melbourne Cup, and the Sydney to Hobart race before them. And for Forgotten films.
Well don’t think that we’re above caring for something for a short period just to join in the crowd, of course we’re no better. You’d know if you read most of the other rubbish we put on here.
But far from pretending to know anything about the usual dark comedy, coming of age story, moving drama based on a real life tale, or blockbuster since the last movie we saw in the cinema was Senna, we’re heading down our usual path of obscurity.
In particular, we’d like to nominate 6 movie which haven’t won a Best Picture Oscar, but should have.
1 – DEMOLITION MAN
No movie has better captured the potential of what could happen in the future than DD. An all star cast featuring Sly Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and that evil Prison Governor from the Shawshank Redemption make this the must include Action Movie for the list of Oscar-less films.
A welcome under current of humour prevails throughout, and the addition of the unlikely Dennis Leary only rams home that point.
Noone does it better than Sly, and despite the real world having caught up with some of the film’s predictions, it’s still good fun. Better than a two hour spiritual bore-fest.
2 – SOUTH PARK THE MOVIE
It’s now 16 years since it’s release, but is still very funny, and shows why the sharp satire on the TV show is still as good as ever if this is good after such a long time.
To turn the most foul mouthed cartoon in history in a musical was genius, and although a nomination for one for their songs got it close to Oscar gold, we believe the year’s top gong should have fell their way.
3. SNAKES ON A PLANE
If Heath Ledger can win an Oscar for playing the Joker, then why not Snakes on a Plane for best movie. Not nearly enough disaster movies get taken seriously at Oscar Time.
4. POLICE ACADEMY 4 – CITIZENS ON PATROL
They had really hit their straps by this stage with the same jokes repeated over and over from the previous three, but this one had more zing.
G W Bailey returned as Harris in place of the Mauser experiment, and unbeknownst at the time, the Gutt was playing Mahoney for the last time, so this was a golden era for the Police Academy, highlighted by the promotion of Bobcat to the front line.
The Hot Air Balloon chase sequence was film making and script writing at its finest level.
5. THE FIVE YEAR PLAN
Not really a movie, but it is a movie length documentary on how the QPR Football club made it to the EPL in the early parts of this decade.
The club gave unlimited access to cameras and editing, and probably wished at the finished product that more say was had, as the film left people amazed at how badly a highish level sporting club could be run as bad as they were. Or still are.
6. RONIN
If only movie were selected purely on a combination of the best car chase and Robert de Niro line, than this would have won plenty o Gold.
It doesn’t really matter what was in the case that all were chasing throughout, what mattered was plenty of action and de Niro zingers. It left all wondering what colour the boat house was at Hereford.
